You have isolated what appears to be an intracellular parasite from a blood culture from a...

You have isolated what appears to be an intracellular parasite from a blood culture from a human case of chronic fatigue syndrome in Chester County , Pennsylvania. Electron microscopic studies indicated that the isolate looks like a virus, but the results are not conclusive. Your virology/bacteriology training makes you believe that this isolate is either a new virus or a coxiella. Your virology professor tells you that your isolate is not a bacterium.. How would you go about to establish whether the new isolate is a virus or a bacterium? If it is a virus, name it, and explain the basis for your naming it this way.

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How would you go about to establish whether the new isolate is a virus or a bacterium? If it is a virus, name it, and explain the basis for your naming it this way.

If the isolate is a bacterium, then it would grow on a nutrient media. If the isolate is a bacterium, it will not grow on an artificial nutrient medium. Viruses would require a living host cell line for their Replication. Host cells that have been infected could be grown on the growth medium so as to harvest the virus from the source. The visions would be harvested from the liquid medium by separation using filtration or centrifugarion techniques. Viruses could later be collected from the filtrate.

The virus can be named as chronic fatigue virus. Vertebrateviruses canbenamed depending upon the disease they cause or the associated diseases. Or this could also be named as Chester county virus, since it was first isolated from this place.

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